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Throughout the world individuals in the intimacy of their homes innovate, improvise, and struggle daily to pass on endangered languages to their children. Elaina Albers of Northern California holds a tape recorder up to her womb so her baby can hear old songs in Karuk. The Baldwin family of Montana put labels all over their house marked with the Miami words for common objects and activities, to keep the vocabulary present and fresh. In Massachusetts, at the birth of their first daughter, Jesse Little Doe Baird and her husband convince the obstetrician and nurses to remain silent so that the first words their baby hears in this world are Wampanoag.

Thirteen autobiographical accounts of language revitalization, ranging from Irish Gaelic to Mohawk, Kawaiisu to Māori, are brought together by Leanne Hinton, professor emerita of linguistics at UC Berkeley, who for decades has been leading efforts to preserve the rich linguistic heritage of the world. Those seeking to save their language will find unique instruction in these pages; everyone who admires the human spirit will find abundant inspiration.

ISBN-13: 9781597142007

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Heyday

Publication Date: 03-01-2013

Pages: 288

Product Dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

Leanne Hinton is professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, and a founding member of the board of the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival. She has authored many articles and several books on language revitalization, including Flutes of Fire: Essays on California Indian Languages; The Green Book of Language Revitalization in Practice (edited with Ken Hale); and How to Keep Your Language Alive: A Guide to One-on-One Language (with Matt Vera and Nancy Steele). She has worked with AICLS to develop and implement the Master-Apprentice Language Learning Program and the Breath of Life Language Workshops, both of which have expanded throughout the US and internationally. In 2005 she received the Cultural Freedom Award from the Lannan Foundation for her work on the revitalization of endangered languages. Leanne lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband, Gary Scott, and delights in family time with their four children and seven grandchildren.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xi

Part I Starting from Zero

1 Miami 3

myaamiaataweenki oowaaha: 'Miami Spoken Here' Daryl Karen Jessie Jarrid Baldwin

2 Wampanoag 19

How Did This Happen to my Language?: jessie little doe baird

Part II Learning from the Elders

3 Karuk 33

Karuk Language and the Albers Basket Phil Albers Elaina (Supahan) Albers

4 Yuchi 41

Family Language without a Language Family Richard A. Grounds Renée T. Grounds

Part III Families and Communities Working Together

5 Mohawk 61

Our Kanien'kéha Language Margaret Theodore Peters

6 Maori 80

My Language Story Hana O'Regan

7 Hawaiian 101

E Paepae Hou 'Ia Ka Pohaku: Reset the Stones of the Hawaiian House Platform William H. Wilson Kauanoe Kamana

8 Anishinaabemowin 118

Language, Family, and Community Margaret Noori

9 Irish 141

Belfast's Neo-Gaeltacht Aodán Mac Póilin

Part IV Variations on a Theme

10 Kypriaka 167

Making Choices, Enriching Life Aigli Pittaka Brian Bielenberg Aliosha Bielenberg Pittaka

11 Warlpiri 182

About Dad Ezra Hale

Part V Family Language-Learning Programs

12 Kawaiisu 189

The Kawaiisu Language at Home Program Laura Grant Julie Turner

13 Scottish Gaelic 209

Taic/CNSA and Scottish Gaelic Finlay M. Macleoid

Conclusion

14 Bringing Your Language into Your Own Home Leanne Hinton 225

Contributor Biographies 257